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    <p>I know how you feel--I learned a whole lot of computer programming during my CS degree but very little about GUIs. I ended up teaching myself Cocoa/Objective-C for a project. Cocoa is <em>wonderful</em> for GUI stuff but often a royal pain with a steep learning curve. If you don't have any experience with C programming, don't bother.</p> <p>First step: familiarize yourself with the MVC (Model/View/Controller) design convention, because nearly every GUI framework will reference it. Google it--there are lots of resources about it. My quick, simple definition is: </p> <p>The model level defines the data or the logical model for the application. For a web app, that would be the database. For a game, it could be stored data and game logic/rules.</p> <p>The view level is what the user sees and interacts with (the GUI).</p> <p>The controller level is the logic that connects the two. For example, the controller knows that when you click the "start game" button in the view level, it does some stuff with the model (say, setting up the board and the players.)</p> <p>Step two: Figure out what you want. Are you interested in desktop applications specifically? Games? Web apps?</p> <p>If mostly what you want to do is to be able to develop something that people would actually use, another option is to learn a web development framework. The frameworks make stuff easy for you. I love Django, personally, and if you know a little Python and a little HTML and a little about MVC, you can pick it up quickly. (Just don't be confused, because what Django calls a view is actually a controller.)</p> <p>If what you want to do is games or graphics/animation stuff, check out pygame. I used it for a class project--basically taught it to myself in a couple of weeks--and it worked great.</p> <p>I'd say stay as far away as you can from Java Swing/awt/etc. </p> <p>I've heard good things about wxPython--I almost ended up using it instead of Cocoa, because the wx stuff is available in several programming languages and it's all cross platform.</p> <p>Good luck! Stay strong! I know it's really intimidating, because I've been in your shoes. You can do it with some work, practice, and motivation.</p>
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    1. POHow do I actually get somewhere in GUI programming?
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    1. COBtw why stay away from Java Swing/awt/etc ??
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    2. COIn my experience, developing GUI applications in Java is a huge pain. It's difficult to make a really good looking interface, it's hard to get things to do what you want, and you have to write a LOT of code just for basic GUI stuff. (Like an event listener for every event, etc.)
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    3. COPlus AWT is rather outdated now.
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